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Golda Meir
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Golda Meir

Politician · born May 3, 1898 · died 1978

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Golda Meir was the prime minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974. She was Israel's first and, to date, only female head of government.

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  1. 70Became Prime Minister of IsraelMarch 17, 1969
  2. ~77Received the Israel Prize1975

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1982 · United States

Rebecca Maria Hall is an English actress and filmmaker. She made her first onscreen appearance at the age of 10 in the 1992 television adaptation of The Camomile Lawn, directed by her father, Peter Hall. Her professional stage debut came in her father's 2002 production of Mrs.

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James Brown
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James Brown

Politician

1933–2006 · United States

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Scientist

1892–1975 · United Kingdom

Sir George Paget Thomson was a British experimental physicist who shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics with Clinton Davisson "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals." His father, J. J.

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